Don’t Panic: Sasha Banks Is Injured, But Should Be Back Soon

It’s being reported that Sasha Banks suffered a head injury during live tapings, and here, please take this complimentary paper bag to breathe into while we explain that it’s not as bad as initially thought.

Our sources say that Banks did indeed suffer a concussion, and her next evaluation is set for Saturday. It’s anticipated that she’ll pass and be cleared to return to the ring after that. Concussions are tricky, so hopefully that’s the case and she’ll be back soon. Unless it’s a major injury, WWE is actively trying to keep minor injuries as quiet as possible so people don’t freak the eff out, because right now nobody has any reason not to freak the eff out when they hear about another injury. That said, I stand by my case to wrap her in bubblewrap for the next, I dunno, forever probably.

I don’t understand how the amount of house shows they do makes financial sense, not with the increased injuries due to a lot of the roster working a much faster, stiffer style now. How many house shows does it take to equal the amount of money WWE could have made on more years on someone like Daniel Bryan’s career? How many house shows equal the revenue they lost from Seth Rollins missing six months of action? From Cena?

Overworking talent at house shows wasn’t the root cause of a referee accidentally kicking her in the head. But actually it does make financial sense, in that door income and live show merch sales are a large part of the company’s current run of profits.

– “it was initially said that Sasha Banks was being kept away from the ring due to storyline reasons (but) she was pulled due to an injury that occurred in the ring at a WWE Live event on May 15.” She’s had a total of less than three minutes’ TV ring time since Wrestlemania, last wrestling on Raw five weeks ago while still working every house show loop until this incident. That’s not because they thought she might get concussed eventualy.

– It doesn’t seem right that a company that publicly prides itself on its concussion protocols to the extent of press releases about them are keeping deliberately quiet about concussions that don’t occur on TV – Paige got concussed at a house show right at the end of 2015 and we only know because she blabbed in an interview about it.